In Praise of Savagery

Warwick Cairns – The Book Swap Interview

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Warwick Cairns lives in Windsor with his wife, two daughters and two dogs. He is the author of 3 books. About the Size of It is about how the world’s systems of weights and measures have been shaped by the fact most of us have better things to think about. How to Live Dangerously is [...]

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In Praise of Savagery: reviewed

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My dad is very elderly and in poor health, but I wanted so much to tell him about Warwick, a man who met and lived with Thesiger.

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The Alien’s Guide To Alcohol

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I just don’t like the taste of most alcohol, apart from the sort of stuff old ladies drink in thimble-sized glasses at Christmas.

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He only does it to annoy because he knows it teases.

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Why should human-human partnerships be the only kind to be celebrated in society and recognised in law? Is that not a blatantly speciesist thing?

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The Devil’s Party

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Sometimes unrelieved goodness can get rather cloying. Sometimes you need the destructive power of negative energy, just to shake things up and just to restore balance in the world.

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Injury Time Revisited

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The bones of my pelvis had twisted, and in particular the curved structure at the front known as the pubic bone or pubic arch had pulled apart and ‘opened up’

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Murder. And Admin

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a single shot rang out. It was a signal for which the soldiers had been waiting, dressed and armed; and upon the sound of it they turned upon their hosts, dragging them from their beds and slaughtering them in front of their homes.

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A visit to the clinic – From In Praise of Savagery

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When I got to the front of the queue the medicine-man’s assistant took hold of my shoulder with one hand, and with the other he pushed a pin or needle into my skin and lifted it up towards the medicine man

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Warwick Cairns is away

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WARWICK CAIRNS IS AWAY

but we have managed to get hold of a sneak preview of the front cover for his new book.

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The profound truth of guilty pleasures

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I think all of the ‘important’ things about a person – their principles, their opinions, their positions on the issues of the day – I think that none of them matter anywhere near as much, or are even half so revealing, as the little, inconsequential, guilty pleasures they can’t help but be drawn towards

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